Partisan Prohibitions

E181213

historical event political crackdown political purge

Partisan Prohibitions were a series of political crackdowns and purges in late Han dynasty China targeting scholars and officials accused of factionalism and opposition to eunuch influence at court.

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Label	Occurrences
Partisan Prohibitions canonical	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical event ⓘ political crackdown ⓘ political purge ⓘ political purge ⓘ political purge ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Danggu zhi huo ⓘ
appliesTo	officials ⓘ scholars ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
documentedIn	Hou Hanshu ⓘ later Chinese historiography ⓘ
hasCause	accusations of factionalism ⓘ opposition to eunuch influence at court ⓘ
hasPart	First Partisan Prohibition ⓘ Second Partisan Prohibition ⓘ
historicalSignificance	contributed to political instability of late Han ⓘ intensified court factionalism ⓘ weakened Confucian bureaucratic elite ⓘ
ideologicalContext	Confucian opposition to eunuch corruption ⓘ
implementedBy	eunuch faction at court ⓘ
implementedUnder	Emperor Huan of Han ⓘ Emperor Ling of Han ⓘ
languageOfName	Chinese ⓘ
legalConsequence	loss of civil rights for accused partisans ⓘ prohibition from official appointments ⓘ
locatedIn	Han dynasty ⓘ surface form: Han dynasty China
opposedBy	Confucian literati ⓘ
politicalContext	struggle between eunuch clique and Confucian officials ⓘ
precedes	collapse of the Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ
relatedTo	Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions ⓘ eunuch dominance in late Han court politics ⓘ
result	ban on holding office for those labeled partisans ⓘ disenfranchisement of many officials ⓘ execution of some accused partisans ⓘ imprisonment of scholars ⓘ
targets	Confucian scholars ⓘ bureaucratic officials ⓘ partisan scholars ⓘ partisan scholars ⓘ
timePeriod	166 CE ⓘ 169 CE ⓘ 2nd century CE ⓘ imperial court of Eastern Han ⓘ surface form: late Eastern Han dynasty
typeOfVictimization	intellectual repression ⓘ political persecution ⓘ

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Subject: Partisan Prohibitions
Description of subject: Partisan Prohibitions were a series of political crackdowns and purges in late Han dynasty China targeting scholars and officials accused of factionalism and opposition to eunuch influence at court.

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Han dynasty → significantEvent → Partisan Prohibitions ⓘ